Musings of a Wordsmith - 21. Tenses (A Grammatical Digression)

In the past I reflected
on the enticing future
awaiting around the corner.

From simple to perfect,
always going one step beyond
to reach that bit more of perfection
in a pluperfect way.

And I kept on thinking
about what needed to be done
to make a perfect one
out of my simple future.

Once again, I went
over the paradigm of tenses
and suddenly, crystal clear
was the path before my eyes.

To get a perfect future
only attention is required
to that expression of time
so quotidian, that it slips
unnoticed away
while dealing with past,
perfects, pluperfects
and futures to come.

It is now time once more
to reach for our present
with hopeful hands,
with one anchoring us to the past
while the other one is building a bridge
from here and now
to that precious perfect future
I so long for.